At independence and in the post-colonial era most countries embarked on a series of land reform, land redistribution and land restitution with some adopting the land tenure system. This study sought to assess the environmental impacts associated with the land reform in resettlement wards of Matobo District in Zimbabwe. The study adopted both social impact assessment approaches and the environmental assessments. The findings revealed farreaching repercussions resulting from activities associated with land reform in Matobo District which altered the physical landscape. The program is accompanied by inter alia excessive poaching, unsustainable agricultural practises, reduced farm production and ecosystem degradation. Therefore, urgent sustainable measures are recommended to be implemented from this study in order to avoid further environmental damage. / Environmental Management / M. Sc. (Environmental Management)

South Africa’s land redistribution policy (1994-2008) has been widely publicised, and has come under scrutiny of late from the public, private and government spheres, highlighting a need for research in this area. The research examines progress in South Africa’s land redistribution programme in two of KwaZulu-Natal’s district municipalities, Uthungulu and iLembe. Specifically the research investigates whether the government has paid above market prices when purchasing sugarcane farmland for redistribution in these districts. Moreover, it is illustrated how productivity on redistributed farms has been affected with the changes in ownership. To investigate the research questions, reviews of theories pertaining to property rights, land reform and market structures were conducted. Moreover, two cases studies were conducted in the districts of Uthungulu and iLembe, with assistance from the Department of Land Affairs, Inkezo Land Company and the South African Cane Growers Association. The case study data indicate that above ordinary market prices have been paid (2004-2006) by the government for sugarcane farmland in the districts concerned, and further that productivity has been negatively impacted ‘during’ and ‘post‘ transfer, in the majority of cases.

This Master´s Dissertation aimed to analyze the functionality of the state in the public policies. representation on territorial reorientation, designed and engineered by capital in multiple scales and multiple actions to determine, by building the project of Interbasin transfer of the Sao Francisco River in the northeastern backcountry. The way to lead this research was supported by the dialectic and historical materialism. The men¢¥s Space is historical materiality, it occupies an intermediate position related by work relations, and the Territory to be the category which has the sense of ownership, present in the antagonism of class struggle power. The research from primary sources, secondary sources and interviews allowed to found out that the State has the discourse of ensuring water security to promote quality of food security, widely builds in northeastern Brazil water projects for the agricultural exports. The depth and sophistication of the water industry aims hydro-agribusiness, causing an increase in concentration of land ownership and domination of secular political groups. What we can find out is that not simply consolidates a drought industry, but an industry where appropriation of water is the guarantee of self-dealing nature as an economic resource, extending the control of the production process for the purpose of reproduction and capital¢¥s expansion. The fictitious state¢¥s discourse, endorsed by financing credit institutions, combating and eradication of poverty and misery leads to a valuable instrument of injection of capital, mainly in the agricultural area of northeastern backcountry. The capitalist advances showing the contradictions inherent follows its own the social character of capitalism¢¥s logic¢¥s expansion, creation and destruction than what is really needed for their reproduction: the human being and nature. The interbasin transfer of the Sao Francisco River, promotes two actions with determinant deadlines, the farmers. expropriation from the areas where there are agricultural export programs and the farmer¢¥s labor expropriation and its transformation into wage areas. Beside the state´s role in this current context, it is even more evident in the strong interventions through public-welfare policies, which mostly have the funding / credit as a driving force, further intensifying the poverty and misery at the expense of socially produced wealth, but that it is privatized into the shareholders hand. / A presente Dissertação de Mestrado teve como objetivo analisar a funcionalidade do Estado no simulacro das políticas públicas de reordenamento territorial, concebida e engendrada pelo capital em múltiplas escalaridades e em múltiplas determinações, através da construção do projeto de transposição do rio São Francisco, no sertão nordestino. A condução da investigação foi sustentada na concepção do materialismo histórico e dialético. As categorias geográficas Espaço e Território foram conceitos basilares, para nossa análise. O Espaço por ser a materialidade histórica dos homens, espaço das relações sociais mediadas e produzidas pelo trabalho, e o Território por ser a categoria que apresenta o sentido de propriedade, de poder presente no antagonismo da luta de classes. As pesquisas em fontes primárias, secundárias e as entrevistas possibilitaram constatar que o Estado com o discurso de garantir a segurança hídrica para promover qualidade à segurança alimentar, edifica amplamente no nordeste brasileiro projetos hídricos voltados para a agroexportação. O aprofundamento e sofisticação da indústria da água tem como finalidade o hidro-agronegócio, acarretando a ampliação da concentração fundiária e a secular dominação dos grupos políticos. O que se constata é que se consolida não simplesmente uma indústria da seca, mas uma indústria em que a apropriação da água é a garantia do favorecimento ilícito da natureza como recurso econômico, ampliando o controle do processo produtivo com o objetivo da reprodução e ampliação do capital. O discurso falacioso do Estado, referendado pelas instituições de financiamento de crédito, ao combate e erradicação da pobreza e miséria conduz a um instrumento valoroso de injeção de capital, principalmente no espaço agrário do sertão nordestino. O avanço capitalista segue mostrando as contradições inerentes a sua própria lógica sociometabólica para a expansão, criação e destruição do que lhe é necessário para sua reprodução: o ser humano e a natureza. A transposição do rio São Francisco promove duas ações em prazos determinantes: a expropriação dos camponeses das áreas atingidas pelo programa agroexportador e a expropriação do trabalho camponês e sua transformação em assalariados. Paralelamente, o papel do Estado neste atual contexto se evidencia ainda mais nas fortes intervenções através de políticas públicas e assistencialistas, que na sua maioria tem o financiamento/crédito como força motriz, intensificando ainda mais a pobreza e a miséria em detrimento da riqueza socialmente produzida, mas que é privatizada nas mãos dos detentores do capital.

The theme of territorial development has attracted interests of different areas of knowledge. In this sense, it becomes necessary to think about the approach of territorial development in Brazil, which became wider at the beginning of the XXI century. This particular thesis aims to perform reflections on the process of preparing and implementing territorial actions to promote a development in rural areas; in this regard the discussion about the experience of Brazilian planning is recognized, and it is also aimed to understand the challenge of construction of mediation processes which are able to guide and operationalize territorial policies; it also aims to forward the interests for discussion that evidences the problematic of social management. The research has an exploratory and investigative character, performing an approach that ponders the territorial development through an analysis, from survey and literature review on the theme, and the analysis of data obtained through fieldwork, such as interviews with the main social actors bound to entities and members of social movements that contribute in the process of territorial development, taking as a parameter the main instance: the Rural Territorial Collegiate. It is acknowledged that the participation of civil society in the elaboration of public policies is significantly important, providing the transcendence of apparent contradictions of interests and visions inherent to public and private domain, particularly when referring to rural environments, in which an increasing on density of commitments and responses is aimed. It is to respond to the challenge of territorial development, in the face to the difficulty in forming government capacity of multiple commitments on strategic interplay of the actors. It refers to the recognition of the importance of the participation and interaction of different social actors in the attempt of delineating ways to territorial development. Also regarding to the discussion of territorial development, this job is linked to the references of the discussion about the rural environment in Portugal, especially the discussion of governance, through contact with Portugal Local Development Associations, although it is considered the significant and notable differences regarding to the territorial dimension and the socio-economic and environmental issues between these two countries. As a result of the research, it is evidenced that the Rural Development Policy in Brazil is a process in construction that still goes through difficulties regarding to its supporting pillars among which is called attention to social management; the data and conducted analysis reveal that there was a process of change in the manner and consequences of action planning in rural environment, and also reveal that there is an advance regarding to the innovation in the instruments of participation and valuing of local forces, from the point of view of the togetherness of different representations that are heterogeneous. And therefore, they try to find the ways to reduce social disparities in rural environment, through management, but still in a fragile way. / A temática do desenvolvimento territorial despertou interesses de diferentes áreas do conhecimento. Torna-se necessário uma análise sobre a abordagem do desenvolvimento territorial no Brasil, que ganhou maior expressão no início do século XXI. A tese em tela tem como objetivo realizar reflexões em torno do processo de elaboração e implementação das ações territoriais para a promoção do desenvolvimento em áreas rurais. Retoma-se a discussão sobre a experiência do planejamento brasileiro, no intuito de compreender a construção de processos de mediação capazes de orientar e operacionalizar as políticas territoriais, visa encaminhar os interesses para a discussão sobre a problemática da governança. A pesquisa é de caráter exploratório-investigativo, aborda e pondera o desenvolvimento territorial por meio da análise, parti do levantamento e revisão bibliográfica referente à temática, e da análise de dados obtidos por meio de trabalho de campo, como as entrevistas dos principais atores sociais vinculados a entidades e membros de movimentos sociais que contribuem no processo de desenvolvimento territorial, tomando como parâmetro a instância principal: os Colegiados Territoriais Rurais. Reconhece-se que a participação da sociedade civil na elaboração das políticas públicas é significativa e propicia a transcendência de aparentes contradições de interesses e visões inerentes ao domínio público e privado, especialmente, quando se refere aos meios rurais, onde se procura aumentar a densidade de compromissos e de respostas. Trata-se de responder ao desafio do desenvolvimento territorial, face à dificuldade para constituir capacidade governativa de compromissos múltiplos no entrosamento estratégico. Refere-se ao reconhecimento da importância da participação e interação de diferentes atores sociais na tentativa de delinear caminhos para o desenvolvimento territorial. No âmbito da discussão do desenvolvimento territorial, o trabalho faz vínculo com as referências do debate sobre o meio rural em Portugal, em especial o contato com as Associações de Desenvolvimento Local de Portugal, embora se considere as significativas e notórias diferenças sobre a dimensão territorial e aos aspectos sócio-econômicos e ambientais existentes entre os dois países. O resultado da pesquisa evidencia que a política de desenvolvimento territorial rural no Brasil é um processo em construção que passa por dificuldades nos pilares de implantação e sustentação, dentre os quais se destaca a gestão social. Dados e análises realizadas revelam que ocorreu um processo de mudança na forma e nos desdobramentos das ações no meio rural, e que há avanços no sentido de inovações nos instrumentos de participação e de valorização das forças locais, como o ajuntamento de diferentes representações que são heterogêneas, mas buscam encontrar meios de reduzir as disparidades sociais no meio rural por meio da gestão, entretanto, ainda de forma frágil.

Social vulnerability and poverty, present mainly in the Brazilian rural areas, originated from a style of development characterized by clearly biased urban concepts of land and income concentration have made family reproduction difficult, besides stimulating rural exodus. Such scenario has made the government rethink its rural development policies by adopting a territorial approach seen as a mechanism of social inclusion, i.e., more participative and better adapted to the local reality. However, the efficacy of the public territorial policies has been questioned, motivating us to carry out this work. The general objective is to analyze the territorial development policies under the perspective of governance and sustainability, as represented by the counselors of Territory of Alto Sertão Sergipano (TASS) and the families benefited by the Sustainable Rural Territorial Development Plan (PDTRS). Answers were sought to the following questions: Are the TASS development policies conceived as sustainable by the actors involved in function of their social representations? Have the governance practices turned into collective projects and environments for participation, thus contributing to a sustainable territorial development? Has the qualitative-quantitative survey applied the theory of social representations regarding the counselors and the benefited families, as well as regarding data collection tools such as bibliographic review, census and document registration, semi-structured interviews, life history, participative observation, and photographic records of everyday life? The results showed that there is a coherent link between the social representations of the participants regarding territorial sustainability and public policies and the empirical theoretical- conceptual basis. It was concluded that the governance of the TASS development policies, based onasymmetric relations and decision making processes has not favored the collective projects, being limited by their institutional fragility and distorted territorial views. Social cohesion should be increased and the mechanisms of identity and solidarity should be strengthened in the territory by means of a new organizational culture favoring public territorial policy sustainability. / A situação de pobreza e vulnerabilidade social presente principalmente no espaço rural brasileiro, derivada do estilo de desenvolvimento, com nítido viés urbano e concentrador de terra e renda, tem dificultado a reprodução social das famílias, além de incentivar o êxodo rural. Este cenário levou o governo a refletir sobre suas políticas de desenvolvimento rural com a adoção da abordagem territorial, vista como um mecanismo de inclusão social, por pressupor uma questão mais participativa e mais adaptada à realidade local. Entretanto, tem sido questionada a efetividade das políticas públicas territoriais, o que incentivou a pesquisa em questão. O objetivo geral é analisar as políticas de desenvolvimento territorial na perspectiva de governança e da sustentabilidade, a partir das representações dos conselheiros do Território do Alto Sertão Sergipano (TASS) e das famílias beneficiárias do Plano de Desenvolvimento Territorial Rural Sustentável (PDTRS). Buscou-se responder aos seguintes questionamentos: as políticas de desenvolvimento do TASS são concebidas como sustentáveis pelos atores envolvidos, em função de suas representações sociais? As práticas de governança se materializam em projetos coletivos e espaços de participação e contribuem para o desenvolvimento territorial sustentável? A pesquisa de natureza quali-quantitativa fez uso da teoria das representações sociais, tanto dos conselheiros quanto das famílias beneficiadas, bem como dos seguintes instrumentos de coleta de dados: pesquisa bibliográfica, registro censitário e documental, entrevista semiestruturada, história de vida, observação participativa, além de registros fotográficos, que ilustram o cotidiano vivenciado. Os resultados mostraram uma coerência entre as representações sociais dos entrevistados sobre território, sustentabilidade e políticas públicas com o referencial teórico-conceitual e empírico. Conclui-se que o processo de governança das políticas de desenvolvimento do TASS, pautado em relações e processos decisórios assimétricos não tem priorizado os projetos coletivos, pela fragilidade institucional e pelas distorções da visão territorial. Sugerem-se a ampliação da coesão social e o fortalecimento aos mecanismos identitários e de solidariedade no território, por meio de uma nova cultura organizacional que possibilite a sustentabilidade das políticas públicas territoriais.

Orientador: Bastiaan Philip Reydon / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T21:37:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cruz_RogerioPiresda_D.pdf: 4044167 bytes, checksum: 834ef449b03cb60934e069b1cf7c16ae (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta investigação emergiu com o questionamento da tese de que, na região semiárida nordestina do Vale do Açu (RN), entre 1979/1983, o Estado - através da execução da Política Governamental Hídrica (PGH) -, teria constituído e dinamizado o Mercado de Terras Agrícolas (MTA). Com posicionamento distinto, o presente estudo supõe que o MTA constituiu-se por intermédio de um longo processo histórico de mercantilização da terra agrícola, que é anterior à execução daquela PGH. E, mais modernamente, a vigência desta intervenção governamental, num mercado constituído - de fato e de direito - teria provocado uma expansão naquele processo de mercantilização, manifesta, dentre outros fatores, no dinamismo - temporário - dos negócios com terras agrícolas. A fim de realizar esse tipo de discussão, propôs a elaboração de um estudo de caso junto a dois MTAs situados no semiárido nordestino - Assú (RN) e São Rafael (RN) -, por terem sido objeto daquela intervenção governamental hídrica; e, ainda, por terem características físicas e econômicas distintas. Neste último aspecto, dentre os parâmetros de comparação utilizados, cabe mencionar a incidência da desapropriação (comandada pelo Estado) e o desenvolvimento da modernização agrícola (impulsionada pelo mercado e contando com estímulos governamentais). Os dados coletados tanto são primários, quanto secundários. O período amplo de análise do estudo compreendeu os anos de 1971 (tendo em vista a disponibilidade de dados) a 1998 (data de reversão das expectativas positivas de implantação de fruticultura irrigada regional baseada na grande empresa agroexportadora). Dentre os resultados obtidos destacaram-se: a) a mercantilização da terra agrícola e/ou o processo de constituição do MTA ocorreu, seja mediante influência positiva do mercado de produtos agrícolas, seja através de um impulso legal - isto é, com a edição da Lei Estadual de Terras de 1895; b) mais recentemente, a PGH teve início com uma expressiva desapropriação fundiária, que implicou em aumento nos níveis de concentração da base fundiária, previamente existentes; após o término da principal obra hídrica prevista, a Barragem Armando Ribeiro Gonçalves (BARG), registrou-se um crescimento do dinamismo dos negócios no MTA, por um breve tempo, comandado principalmente por agropecuaristas regionais; isto sugeriu um predomínio do uso produtivo da terra (ativo de capital); porém, houve um percentual desse dinamismo comandado por investidores externos ao setor agrícola, num indicativo de que a terra também assumiu uso especulativo (ativo líquido); d) em face da decadência do tradicional complexo econômico nordestino e da pequena expressividade da fruticultura irrigada houve um aumento nos estoques ociosos de terra agrícola, sugerindo que a condição de ativo líquido tornou-se relativamente mais expressiva, do que sugerido anteriormente. Em face dos resultados obtidos concluiu-se que, tal como se supôs, o processo de mercantilização da terra agrícola se consagrou a partir da constituição legal do MTA regional ocorrida a partir do final do século XIX, e, que acompanhou os movimentos do mercado de produtos agrícolas. Modernamente, a PGH dinamizou temporariamente o MTA; de outro, agravou a Questão Fundiária Regional - através de aumento na concentração, ociosidade e especulação com terras agrícolas. Principal solução apontada: efetivação do Imposto Territorial Rural / Abstract: This investigation arose from the questioning in the doctoral dissertation concerning the semi-arid Northeast region of Brazil, the Vale do Açu (RN), between 1979/1983, in which the State, through the Governmental Hydric Policy (PGH), defined and invigorated the Agricultural Land Market (MTA). The present study, taking a specific stance, presupposes that the MTA constituted itself through the mediation of a long historical process of the commodification of agricultural land, which was prior to the carrying out of the PGH. In addition, more recently, the validity of this governmental intervention in the market, by fact and by law, would have provoked an expansion of the commodification process, manifested in the temporary dynamism of business with agricultural lands, among other factors. Aiming to carry out this type of discussion, the development of a case study with the two MTAs located in the semi-arid northeastern region ¿ Assú (RN) and São Rafael (RN) ¿ was proposed, since they were participants in the governmental hydric intervention, and for having distinct physical and economic characteristics. In this latter aspect, among the parameters of comparison used, it is important to highlight the incidence of expropriation of land (ordered by the State, and the development of agricultural modernization (driven by the market and relying on government stimulus). Both primary and secondary data were collected. The broadest period of analysis of this study, spans the years between 1971 (in light of the availability of data) to 1998 (reversion data of the positive expectation of the implementation of regional irrigated fruit crops based on large company agro-exportation models). Among the results obtained, highlighted are: a) the commodification of agricultural land and/or the process of developing the MTA, whether through positive influences from the agricultural product market, or legally driven ¿ with the edition of the State Land Laws of 1895; b) more recently, the PGH¿s initial expressive expropriation, which implicated in the increase of levels of concentration of the previously existing land base; c) after the completion of the main hydric project previewed, the Armando Ribeiro Gonçalves Dam (BARG), growth in the dynamism of business in the MTA was recorded for a brief period, driven mainly by the agricultural-cattle regions; this suggests the predominance of productive land use (active capital); however, there was a percentage of this dynamism driven by foreign investors to the agricultural sector, in an indication that the land was also being used for speculation (active liquid assets); d) facing the decline of the traditional northeastern economic complex, and the low expressivity of the irrigated fruit crop sector, there was an increase in the stocks of unused agricultural land, suggesting that the condition of active liquid assets became relatively more expressive than previously suggested. Considering the results obtained, it is concluded that, as was expected, the process of commodification of agricultural land was consecrated from the legal constitution of the regional MTA, which took place starting at the end of the 19th Century, and, that it followed trends in the agricultural product market. Modernly, the PGH temporarily invigorated the MTA; on the other hand, it disrupted the Regional Landholding Question ¿ through the increase in the concentration, disuse and speculation of agricultural land. The main solution indicated: implementation of the Rural Territory Tax / Doutorado / Desenvolvimento Economico, Espaço e Meio Ambiente / Doutor em Desenvolvimento Economico

Doctorat en sciences sociales, politiques et économiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Text in Afrikaans / Summaries in Afrikaans and English / Miljoene mense ervaar voedselonsekerheid en een uit elke 50 hanger mense is woonagtig in Suid­ Afrika. Daar is genoeg voedsel op ons planeet om elke mens van 'n voldoende voorraad voedsel te verseker; dit waarborg egter nie voedselsekuriteit aan almal nie. Dit is die voedselparadoks: ondanks globale surplusproduksie van voedsel, ly miljoene mense wereldwyd aan wanvoeding en honger, maar veral in die ontwikkelende lande. Suid-Afrika is geen uitsondering nie en ten spyte van selfvoorsiening in voedsel, balanseer die voedselgelykstelling nie. Daar bestaan 'n ekstreme gaping tussen die produksie en verbruik van voedsel. Gevolglik is die probleem wat nagevors is in hierdie studie die gebrek aan voedselsekuriteit binne 'n wereldkonteks met voedselsurplusse en hoe dit reflekteer in Suid-Afrika. Teen hierdie agtergrond is daar 'n studie gedoen van die oorsake van voedselonsekerheid en die teoriee en verduidelikings van hongersnood. Die fokus van hierdie navorsingstudie is drieledig van aard. Eerstens fokus dit op 'n konseptuele ondersoek na hanger, armoede, voedselsekuriteit en hongersnood in Afrika. Tweedens is ondersoek ingestel na die oorsake vir die gebrek aan voedselsekuriteit in Afrika. Derdens is daar gefokus op Suid-Afrika en is 'n ondersoek gedoen na die voorkoms van hanger, wanvoeding, armoede en die nasionale konteks van voedselsekuriteit met die doel om vraagstukke daaromheen te identifiseer. Daar is bevind dat voedselsekuriteit bepaal word deur die beskikbaarheid van voedsel (aanbod) en die vermoe van mense om dit te bekom (aanvraag). Dit blyk dat die ontwikkelingsproses, regeringsbeleid, ekologiese omgewing en tegnologie, wetenskap en navorsing 'n direkte invloed het op die voedselsekuriteit van mense, en dat Suid-Afrika nie verskil van ander Afrikalande in hierdie verband nie. Hoewel Suid-Afrika voedselselfvoorsiening bereik het, ly miljoene mense honger weens armoede en die gebrek aan aansprake wat bydra tot 'n gebrek aan voedselsekuriteit. Die studie toon dat die Suid-Afrikaanse regering verskeie beleidsmaatreels in plek het ter bevordering van voedselsekuriteit, maar dat dit nie in die praktyk verwesenlik word nie. / Millions of people in the world experience food insecurity and one out ofevery 50 hungry people lives in South Africa. There is enough food on our planet to assure every person of an adequate supply of food; however, this does not guarantee food security for all. This is the food paradox: despite a global surplus production of food, millions of people experience malnutrition and hunger all over the world, but especially in the developing countries. South Africa is no exception and despite self-sufficiency in food, the food equation is not balanced. An extreme gap exists between the production and consumption of food. Consequently, the problem researched in this study is the lack of food security in a world context with surplus food and how this is reflected in South Africa. Against this background a study was undertaken of the causes of food insecurity and the theories and explanations of famine. The focus of this research study is threefold. Firstly it focuses on a conceptual enquiry intohunger, poverty, food security and famine in Africa. Secondly there is an enquiry into the causes of the lack of food security in Africa. Thirdly it focuses on South Africa and an enquiry is done into the incidence of hunger, malnutrition and poverty, and into the national context of food security with the aim of identifying relevant problems in food security. It was found that food security is determined by the availability of food (supply) and the capability of people to obtain it (demand). It appears that the development process, government policy, ecological environment and technology, science and research directly affect the food security of people, and that South Africa does not differ from other African countries in this regard. Although South Africa has achieved food self-sufficiency, millions of people experience hunger because of poverty and the lack of entitlements. The study shows that the South African government has various policy measures for the promotion of food security in place, but that food security does not materialise in practice. / Development Studies / D.Litt. et Phil. (Ontwikkelingsadministrasie)

Text in Afrikaans / Summaries in Afrikaans and English / Miljoene mense ervaar voedselonsekerheid en een uit elke 50 hanger mense is woonagtig in Suid­ Afrika. Daar is genoeg voedsel op ons planeet om elke mens van 'n voldoende voorraad voedsel te verseker; dit waarborg egter nie voedselsekuriteit aan almal nie. Dit is die voedselparadoks: ondanks globale surplusproduksie van voedsel, ly miljoene mense wereldwyd aan wanvoeding en honger, maar veral in die ontwikkelende lande. Suid-Afrika is geen uitsondering nie en ten spyte van selfvoorsiening in voedsel, balanseer die voedselgelykstelling nie. Daar bestaan 'n ekstreme gaping tussen die produksie en verbruik van voedsel. Gevolglik is die probleem wat nagevors is in hierdie studie die gebrek aan voedselsekuriteit binne 'n wereldkonteks met voedselsurplusse en hoe dit reflekteer in Suid-Afrika. Teen hierdie agtergrond is daar 'n studie gedoen van die oorsake van voedselonsekerheid en die teoriee en verduidelikings van hongersnood. Die fokus van hierdie navorsingstudie is drieledig van aard. Eerstens fokus dit op 'n konseptuele ondersoek na hanger, armoede, voedselsekuriteit en hongersnood in Afrika. Tweedens is ondersoek ingestel na die oorsake vir die gebrek aan voedselsekuriteit in Afrika. Derdens is daar gefokus op Suid-Afrika en is 'n ondersoek gedoen na die voorkoms van hanger, wanvoeding, armoede en die nasionale konteks van voedselsekuriteit met die doel om vraagstukke daaromheen te identifiseer. Daar is bevind dat voedselsekuriteit bepaal word deur die beskikbaarheid van voedsel (aanbod) en die vermoe van mense om dit te bekom (aanvraag). Dit blyk dat die ontwikkelingsproses, regeringsbeleid, ekologiese omgewing en tegnologie, wetenskap en navorsing 'n direkte invloed het op die voedselsekuriteit van mense, en dat Suid-Afrika nie verskil van ander Afrikalande in hierdie verband nie. Hoewel Suid-Afrika voedselselfvoorsiening bereik het, ly miljoene mense honger weens armoede en die gebrek aan aansprake wat bydra tot 'n gebrek aan voedselsekuriteit. Die studie toon dat die Suid-Afrikaanse regering verskeie beleidsmaatreels in plek het ter bevordering van voedselsekuriteit, maar dat dit nie in die praktyk verwesenlik word nie. / Millions of people in the world experience food insecurity and one out ofevery 50 hungry people lives in South Africa. There is enough food on our planet to assure every person of an adequate supply of food; however, this does not guarantee food security for all. This is the food paradox: despite a global surplus production of food, millions of people experience malnutrition and hunger all over the world, but especially in the developing countries. South Africa is no exception and despite self-sufficiency in food, the food equation is not balanced. An extreme gap exists between the production and consumption of food. Consequently, the problem researched in this study is the lack of food security in a world context with surplus food and how this is reflected in South Africa. Against this background a study was undertaken of the causes of food insecurity and the theories and explanations of famine. The focus of this research study is threefold. Firstly it focuses on a conceptual enquiry intohunger, poverty, food security and famine in Africa. Secondly there is an enquiry into the causes of the lack of food security in Africa. Thirdly it focuses on South Africa and an enquiry is done into the incidence of hunger, malnutrition and poverty, and into the national context of food security with the aim of identifying relevant problems in food security. It was found that food security is determined by the availability of food (supply) and the capability of people to obtain it (demand). It appears that the development process, government policy, ecological environment and technology, science and research directly affect the food security of people, and that South Africa does not differ from other African countries in this regard. Although South Africa has achieved food self-sufficiency, millions of people experience hunger because of poverty and the lack of entitlements. The study shows that the South African government has various policy measures for the promotion of food security in place, but that food security does not materialise in practice. / Development Studies / D.Litt. et Phil. (Ontwikkelingsadministrasie)

This study examines rural household food security and its determinants in drought-prone Amhara Region of Ethiopia by focusing on Lay Gaint district as a case study site. A range of factors from physical environmental circumstances to policy and institutions-related issues determine households‟ vulnerability to food insecurity and livelihood outcomes. The survey results showed that the majority (74%) of the sampled households experienced food insecurity. The situation was worse among female-headed households such that 86% of them were food insecure. The study revealed that, despite the low level of productivity related to local environmental constraints, rural livelihoods remain undiversified with small scale rain-fed agriculture to provide the primary source of livelihood for the large majority of households (~93% of respondents). Only about 25% of the respondents participated in some form of non-farm or off-farm activities, but with only little contribution to their total annual incomes. Food insecurity is a chronic problem in that, on average, households in the study area consume from own production for only about six months. The study found out that the majority of households (about 80%) perceived annual rainfall to be inadequate to support the growing of crops and grazing of animals. The main adaptive strategies employed by the majority of households included diversifying livestock kept, planting trees and diversifying crops. The study revealed that incidence, depth and severity of food insecurity of the food insecure households showed that Woina-Dega and Kolla agro-ecologies are prone to vulnerability to food insecurity. This suggests that development interventions that are geographically differentiated; and build household assets will improve household food security in the study area, and in other similar environments in the country. / Geography / D.Phil.